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Block Volume Snapshots and Snapshot Policies

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2025-10-05
By Thalassa Cloud

We recently introduced Block Volume Snapshots and Snapshot Policies in Thalassa Cloud. This adds simple, reliable data protection and recovery workflows for your IaaS workloads without disrupting running applications. Snapshots is one of the core building blocks for operating modern cloud services in a safe manner. I.g. quickly restoring or cloning a database, or for additional back up strategies. What are Block Volume Snapshots? Block Volume Snapshots are point‑in‑time, incremental copies of a Block Volume.

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